J. M. Wright Technical High School

J. M. Wright Technical High School is a close-knit high school in Stamford, Connecticut, overseen by Connecticut Technical Education and Career System. The school educates 494 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 37% leaner than the typical public school in Connecticut, which averages around 788 students.

Connecticut Technical Education and Career System comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 11,296 students; J. M. Wright Technical High School is among them.

On demographics, J. M. Wright Technical High School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 15% Black, 10% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, J. M. Wright Technical High School shows 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. The state averages around 12.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Western Connecticut Planning Region's rate of about 33%.

In the surrounding community, Western Connecticut Planning Region reports that the typical household earns roughly $128,188 per year, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Western Connecticut Planning Region's 149 public schools (combined enrollment of about 90,520 students), J. M. Wright Technical High School is one campus in the mix.

Cloonan School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around J. M. Wright Technical High School.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. J. M. Wright Technical High School's enrollment has rose 15% since 2018, when it stood at 431 (now 494). Hispanic enrollment moved from 54% to 72% across the same window.

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